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3§ilntingtnn morning £>tar Published Daily Except Sunday By The Wilmington Star-New* At The Murchison Building R B. Page, Owner and Publisher Telephone All Departments DIAL 3311 Entered as Second Class Matter at Wilming ton N. C., Postoffice Under Act of Congrest of March 3. 1879. 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Seaside Highway from Wrightsville Beach to Bald Head Island Extension of City Limits. 35-Foot Cape Fear River channel, wid er Turning Basin, with ship lanes into industrial sites along Eastern bank south of Wilmington. Paved River Road to Southport, via Orton Plantation. Development of Pulp Wood Production through sustained-yield methods through out Southeastern North Carolina. Unified Industries and Resort Promo tional Agency, supported by one county wide tax. Shipyards and Dry docks. Negro Health Center for Southeastern North Carolina, developed around the Community Hospital. Adequate hospital facilities for ivliitcs. Junior High School. Tobacco Warehouses for Export Buyers. Development of native grape growing throughout Southeastern North Carolina. Modern Tuberculosis Sanatorium. TOP O’ THE MORNING— (Put in by request) Though the cause of evil prosper, yet ’tis truth alone is strong; Though her portion be the scaffold, and upon the throne be wrong, Yet the scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above His own. —James Russell Lowell. Brigade Boys Crusade Although the actual crusade for Brigade Boys funds is not to start until September it is none too soon to direct attention to it and urge the people of Wilmington to give as liberally as they can when called upon, that this organization which has served, helped and started hundreds of Wilmington’s under privileged boys on the way to self support and constructive service may increase its use fulness. Many a man in prominent position in the civic, professional and business life of this city owes his -start, even his opportunity, to the Brigade Boys club. While the Kiwanis club, which launched the brigade originally and, finding it had out grown its ability single-handedly to maintain, sought joint support from the other civic clubs, has again taken it as a principal ob jective, the forthcoming crusade is in every way a community affair, just as the brigade, in the final analysis, is a community respon sibility. If Wilmingtonians want the organization to meet the need of underprivileged youth, they will contribute generously to its support. Wake Forest vs. Camp Davis Wilmington is offered an opportunity to wit ness a football game between Wake Forest and Camp Davis soldiers on September 20. That it will be a first rate contest is proved by the' fact that among the troops at the camp are many men who starred on college teams and who are muscularly tough as hick ory nuts because of their camp routine. Mili tary training is £ts good as college training as far as physical fitness is concerned. Wake Forest, as everybody remembers, de feated the Carolina university squad last year and lost only two games during the season, tts schedule this year includes some of the 'jutstanding squads of the East. As a mem Jer of the Big Five, Wake Forest can giv« fjjl gridiron eleven a run for victory. "^?nat the camp team will be trained anc coached by Capt. A. M. Lazer, former West Point center, with a corps of experienced aides, seems to be -sufficient guarantee that Wake Forest will have no walk-away. The plan for the game is thus far tentative. The two teams are available, but it will take public support to bring the Demon Deacons here and to encourage the camp squad to go into heavy training. This support must be indicated in advance. In other words, there must be a sizable demand for tickets, from today on, if the game is to be played. Who’ll be the first? \ ____— We Dare Not Delay It is the view of Dr. Ernst Meyer, the Ger man diplomat who rejected Hitler and is there fore a Nazi outcast, that the wishful thinkers of the world are Hitler’s allies. ■> Doctor Meyer’s lecture here, under Ameri can Legion sponsorship, was a clear exposi tion of the world situation and the menace the Nazi revolution contains for all uncon quered nations, including the United States, but it seemed to some of his hearers that his real message was of the danger that lurks in the belief, all too widely held, that Hitler may be overthrown by wishing. Chamberlain held this view, Doctor Meyer declared; Poland shared it, and so did Hol land. So, we may think, did a majority of the German people, when Hitler was coming to the front. And it was because the German people could not see the danger of Hitlerism realistically—only 45 per cent of the voters elected him chancellor—and because Cham berlain’s vision was warped, as was Poland’s and Holland’s, that the world now faces its gravest danger. This danger, said Doctor Meyer, is the more serious because of the possibility that Hitler, having already con quered nations with 400,000,000 people, may be able to achieve his principal goal—the domination of the earth. It would be foolhardy to assume that the check placed upon his legions by Russia’s defense is an assurance of his defeat. It might be that, but on the other hand he may have reserves in men, munitions and supplies that will make it possible for him to sweep aside all opposition there, as he has done in his former offensives, and swing ahead, with France cooperating, across Africa to com mand of the Mediterranean, through the Mid dle East to the conquest of India, through Asia, with Japan’s support, to seize British and Dutch possessions with their rich re sources, and ultimately bottle up the British Isles and starve the people into surrender. Then it would be the United States literally against the world. It is not a pretty picture to contemplate. Doctor Meyer did not say it would be painted, but no appraisal of conditions can be ac curate that fails to take it into account. And its possibility—Doctor Meyer empha sized the point—has been created, not alone by Hitler’s genius, but by wishful thinking, by reufsal abroad to recognize its possibility. Clearly it is up to us, as well as the British, to understand that a demonic force is abroad in the world and stop trifling with inadequate programs /for its overthrow. If Senator Byrd is correct in declaring that our defense ac tivities are not up to par, then it is useless for President Roosevelt or any other person in high position to try to bolster public morale by claiming that we are ahead of our schedule. General Marshall put the case plainly when he testified before the Senate Military com mittee recently that our only hope lies in doing too much—not in maintaining a schedule which might easily prove insufficient. It is time for us, as a nation, and as indi viduals, to get down to cases, to see the peril that confronts us, realistically. We are not being led into war by our gov ernment. \Ve are being forced nearer to war because neither we nor any nation in which Hitler has triumphed recognized soon enough the power Hitler was concentrating in his own hands. We were wishfully thinking that some strange happening would bring an end to his conquests. Welcome Realtymen Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach count it an honor that the North Carolina Association of Real Estate Boards selected the beach re sort for its annual convention, and the Star News joins both communities in welcoming the delegates and their friends Who will open their session today. The hope is that this will prove among the most helpful and enjoyable assemblies the as sociation has held. And it is hoped, too, that while Wrightsville and Wilmington will be benefited, the profits will be shared by all who come; that the periods for recreation and entertainment will be as enjoyable as the sessions are informative. Wilmington has undergone many changes since many of the delegates were last here. We hope that the progress will impress them and that they will see that this city is on its way to even greater accomplishments. Par ticularly, we hope that they will have a thor oughly good time and, departing, realize that they take with them the good will and best wishes of two hospitable communities. Be Careful With the new school term to open shortly, this is a proper time to caution motorists using the highways to exert the utmost care in the vicinity of schools and when near school buses. The life of some child, no less dear to its parents than your own to you, may depend on your driving habits. Cotton Exports Race suicide of hogs was no more disas trous, it appears, than assaults on cotton acreage of the United States. We cannot wholly blame the war that for the first time our exports of cotton last season fell below those of other countries. There has been blundering at home in our cotton program. \ An item In the New York Times on the cotton situation is illuminating. We quote: After enjoying a dominant position in the world cotton trade for more than a century, with normally about 60 per cent of production going into the foreign mar ket, exports from this country in the 12 months ended on July 31 amounted to only 1,141,000 bales, less than 10 per cent of last, season’s yield. British India was first in the export of the staple and Brazil, a comparatively newcomer, was second. The United States fell to third position. The loss of markets on the continent of Europe, the shipping situation generally and the fact that the Brazilian and Indian staples were available for a large part of the season at 50 per cent below com parable United States grades, accounted largely for the decline in United States cotton exports. So far as United States cotton is concerned, the situatfon has be come worse since the close or last season and recent developments indicate that ex ports from the United States for the pres ent season may be even less. Will Know In Two Weeks The first American tanker bearing oil to Russia is due tat Vladivostok within two weeks. When it arrives, or nears its destination, we will learn whether Japan is bluffing or means business. There is a growing belief that Japan, after its little hour of strut and rave, is beginning to regret its militant attitude and would glad ly seek a hole to crawl into, if that were possible without loss of “face.” There is some support for this view in the weakening punch of Japanese protests and warnings. It might easily be, however, that this soften ing is a trick, designed to mislead the United States and Britain—a cunning device in the Hitler pattern—and nothing less. At least nei ther this country or Britain is being fooled. Unless some overt act is committed in the meantime, howevdP, the chances are that no definite estimate of Japan’s intentions can be made until this tanker en route to Vladivos tok is near its dock. Then we will learn whether the United States is to be dragged into the war by the back door, or whether Japan is out on a limb. Washington Daybook (Sitting in for vacationing Jack Stinnett, Miss Arne has written a series on Wash ington’s women reporters. This is the first of three articles.) By SIGRID ARNE WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—“Members and Press Only” is a forbidding sign which ap pears in two places in the capitol. One is beside a private elevator to the Senate floor and gallery. The other flanks an elevator to the House floor and gallery. Newspaper men take that privilege absent mindedly. But it’s usually with a gulp that a woman reporter takes her first ride. It was ’way back in 1850. that the first woman writer sat in the Senate gallery. Now, 91 years later, women are still much in the minority. Of 542 persons admitted to the press galleries only 38 are women. * * The women have every privilege the men enjoy, except the old “back room” gathering at the day’s end when men cronies of press and Congress collect for a few “quick ones” and the low down. That could mean the women would miss stories but they get around it by more per sistent use of the phone and feet. I’ve never heard a trained woman reporter complain that any government official “held out” just be cause she was a woman. But women must disprove personally the adage, “Tell a woman, tell the world.” Once they do, they get a special loyalty from their news contacts. ' There are many ways of doing it, but here’s nil example irum incu ox uuouu vjhc of the few women to have headed a metro politan paper’s Washington bureau. Ned had been tipped to a news bomb by a grouchy senator who swore her to secrecy. Then a representative called to tell her the same story. She played dead pan to the second call. Then the representative told the senator he’d talked with Ned, The senator hit the ceiling with “So! She talked!” “Talked? Did she know about it before I talked to her? She didn’t say so.” The senator chuckled, phoned Ned: “You’re one woman who can keep a secret.” And he followed through with many valuable tips. * * There are about 150 women reporters in this town—from young college graduates to frail Maudie McDougal of the Philadelphia Record, who looks the grandmother but won’t tell her age. Some barely exist on gossip letters to home town papers. But some get around in chauffeur driven cars. Many are “ex’s”, having shifted to publicity jobs, and most of those are with the govern ment. Often they shift because • of the one real handicap which Washington women re porters meet, in common with sisters in other cities. Editors still assign the real news stories to men, and request the women to come back with some bright guff about what Mrs. Roose velt wore. Some few have taken that hurdle, and none more spectacularly than explosive, little Doris Fleeson of the New York Daily News, who made XX 100 per cent newspaper by marrying reporter John O’Donnell, also of the News. Doris is the only woman who is assigned to presidential train trips as a straight news reporter. She has gone so many times that even tiny Doris, 5 years old, has protested. 1 (Tomorrow: The Woman’s Angle) All can count on my spirit of organization, affection.—Admiral Darlan, new Poo-Bah in France. * » ■ * The soldier must also find that the commun ity which he visist on leave is worth defending. —Paul V. McNutt, federal security adminis trator TIGHTEN UP YOUR BELT, BROTHER V?MAMcH |l Interpreting The War Fight For Leningrad Ready For Showdown - By EDWARD BOMAR By EDWARD E. BOMAR The battles just opening for mas tery of the skies over Leningrad appear to be a prelude to a last ditch struggle for the city which the Russians promise to make as desperate as the defense of War saw. Not a bomb had fallen on the roofs of the city itself up to Wednesday morning, it was assert ed, but the progress of Nazi and Finnish forces increases almost hourly the acknowledged peril of the historic capital of the czars. The advance from three sides which Marshal Klementy Voroshi lov last week termed a “terrible danger” is even more threatening now. A main paved highway to Moscow long since has been sev ered at Novgorod, and a German vanguard is reported less than 35 miles from the direct railway link which is the communications jug ular vein. Assuming no weakening of Vor oshilov's determination to fight from door to door, Leningrad’s de fenders seem fully capable of keep ing up the struggle well into the autumn. Execution of the Nazi threat to raze the second Soviet city in the manner of Warsaw and Belgrade may be a long and costly undertaking. To a degree hich the Russian have carefully kept se cret, the ground and anti-aircraft defenses of Leningrad have been reinforced substantially since Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany and put the finger on Red Russia as the Nazis’ ultimate foe. Impregnable Base The nearby island base of Kron stadt, which guards the Baltic sea approach, has been made as near of the Canadians, all of these are men training in the air corps. The anadian office? and non-com train ees not in aviation are in the tank corps. ly impregnable as Russian engi neers knew how. Its colossal three-decker forts which beat ofl an attack by an Anglo-French fleei in the Crimean war are supported now by numerous fortifications in cluding the less pretentious b u 1 more effective Fort Constantine. The manner in which the British naval bases of Malta and Gibral tar have withstood aerial pound ing for nearly two years suggests that Kronstadt will be able to ab sorb punishment for a long time Voroshilov has had weeks to pre pare bunkers, barricades and bat teries for the defense of the city itself, with no interference from the explosion of bombs on the gal vanized roofs which make Lenin grad vulnerable in this respect. Three railway lines are still open to bring in munitions, food and other war supplies, and»to evacu ate troops that may be dispensed with. The northern wing commander is credited with a force of a mil lion men, aside from civilians from the city’s 3,200,000 population who have rallied to Leningrad’s de fense. As much reason exists to as sume that the metropolis will be defended without thought of sur render as to expect that the in vaders’ drive to capture it will be pressed relentlessly. Concentration there of the man ufacture of munitions, machinery, precision tools and other vital products makes Leningrad a mili tary prize second in importance only to the Ukraine, aside from political and other considerations. The city could not be given up without imperilling the whole Red army’s main defense line, of which it is the northern anchor. Joseph Stalin’s scorched earth policy is as applicable to Leningrad as to the lesser towns destroyed in the path of the German legions. Of vital importance too is the As Others Say It The Color of a Woman’s Elbows. A friend of ours goes around noticing women’s elbows. He says that even in well-groomed women, you’d be surprised how many el bows are shades darker than the rest of the arms that go with them. The skin of his own elbows, as he will unhesitatingly show you, is not only shades darker than its sur roundings but also calloused from years of contact with his office table. But, as he says, nobody cares about a man’s elbows. Besides, the fact that girls forget to bleach them with lemon juice once in a while, dark elbows mean countless other things. One is that, although our experience indicates otherwise, girls do manage to get a little room on the arm rests of cine seats. There are few things as uncomfortable as having to sit through an entire movie with your hands on your lap. It is all right at first but pretty soon you find your self plotting to knock your neigh bor's arm off accidentally and in stall your own in its place, while murmuring an apology. — Philip pine Magazine. 2 EXEMPT FROM WAR BOOM. Farm leaders insist that the war boom has failed so far to strike agriculture. Farm income has not risen to anywhere near the extent of la bor’s income. Farmers are forced to pay far higher wages. The costs of all the manufactured goods the farmer must buy are also rising. And the farmer will ear his full share of higher taxes. That situation cannot continue in definitely. Agriculture cannot be treated as a poor relation. The nation’s task now is to make an equitable adjustment between the interests of agriculture, labor and industry.—Charlotte Observer. 2 fate of the Soviet Baltic sea fleet, which is tied up directly with that of Kronstadt and Leningrad. Cap ture or destruction of this force of a battleship, seven or more cruisers, a number of destroyers and a mystery fleet of several score submarines would maket the strategic Baltic a complete Axis lake and solve many of the in vaders’ transport difficulties. 1 I ^ ^ THIRP SHOT V atAyteZ,tT: *«**«< Fair Enough The Star wishes Us reader, to know that views and com ions expressed in this artwu are tnosfe of the author and may not always harmoni". with its position.—The Editor. By WESTBROOK PEGLER WASHINGTON, Aug. Franklin D. Roosevelt has writ!! an article for the September n £ her of the Ladies Home in which she discusses theVo^' velt family income. The n 6' agent of the magazine has ^ me advance information on? chance that I might mention f matter ^ and thus stimulate "ale! which is the proper job of a nre^ agent. I am glad to have thirirl for the topic has been or.e ofT favorites ever since the Preside!! authorized publication of the !! fidential income tax returns of v!!' ious individuals who had onn0«; him but refused to reveal h,s rJ About that time a congressiomi inquiry was running in the How! and two opposition congressrrp> Treadway of Massachusetts oil Ham Fish, the Republican wh! somehow always re-elects hims- f in Roosevelt’s home district We» allowed to ask questions only wi,,; the understanding that they wor d refrain from pressing any demand for publication of the President! own return, of his mother, Mr James Roosevelt, or Jimmy Kot a single return of any member of the Roosevelt family h a s been made public officially in all -h. years that the family with the ex. ception of the two youngest boys Frankie and Johnny, has been rid! ing the gravy train, although the returns of many other men have been analyzed critically and in a i tone of voice which implied that a citizen was to be pilloried lot strict compliance with the law ar.d ought to have paid more taxes than the law required. using Principle In her article Mrs. Roosevelt says that Mr. Roosevelt, during his years in the presidency, has spent more than his salary'fulfill, ing the obligations of hi’s office and that she, herself, notwithstand ing an increase in her income,' has less principal now than she had in 1932. This may be so, but I still have to wonder why the President is so bashful about the family’s several income tax returns in view of the fact that he, personally, gave the orders which broke the seal of confidence which normally is sup posed to protect the returns of ether citizens. Why the special privilege? And, inasmuch as Mrs. Roosevelt’s own vast income is de rived from the presidential office in the amount by which it exceeds her average income of the years before 1932 and inasmuch as Mrs. Roosevelt plainly recognizes this excess to be a public trust, I insist that the public has a right to know what she does with the money. I have reason to believe that a por tion of it has been given to the communistic causes. A Question of Exploitation Of course, there is a question which precedes this one. That question is whether Mrs. Roose velt has exploited the presidency to make money. John Garner wren he was Vice President turned down an opportunity as a radio commentator with the remark that the price was more than he was worth as a private citizen but not enough to hire the Vice President. A comparison of Mrs. Roosevelt's earnings before 1932 and since would prove that the presidential office has been exploited, and atfer that fact has been established we come to the question of what she did with the money. Jimmy Roosevelt is the only one whose returns have been made public but he did that informally and even so admitted flatly that while die was still a law student he accepted a job as window dress ing for a group of promoters at S15.000 a year knowing '‘perfectly well that they were paying for the name and for any value the name might have.” Yet when Congress man Treadway tried to compel an expert analysis of Jimmy's return similar to the hostile inspection of the returns of the President's poj lit;cal opponents, he was blocked Dy members who were determined that the Roosevelt family snoui have this 1 special privilege. This subject has been allowed to lie quiet for a long time, but inas much as Mrs. Roosevelt has seen fit to revive it there is just one answer: That is to be found in the income tax returns and nowhere else, and yie President has the return, on his mother's return, on all Roosevelt’s—Jimmy’s, Elbott s and Mrs. John Boettiger's and on the return of the late Uncle Forbes Morgan who landed a job v™ the whisky trust at $100,000 a year shortly before he died. Break out the rettirns and then ive will be in a position to discuss the issue with Mrs. Roosevelt ® even terms. 1 DAILY HOG MARKET. Re-establishment of a daily bog market in Fayetteville should en courage the farmers of this section ii to break the stranglehold of tne | one-crop system, which is tr,e curse of the South. It is all very well to rail at * one-crop system byt until we f-J' | nish the farmers with someth** that will beat cotton and tobacco as a source of ready cash v might as well expect it to endure Corn grows as well in _ | Carolina as it does almost «:* where in the country and there > no more efficient system of n,a [ keting corn than on the hoof the person of Mister Hog. Ability of the farmers of «>•» | section to market hogs every cal | will promote their production an | will reduce the dependency of 'n' I Cumberland county farmer on iu* | one money crop.—Fayetteville U | i server. i REVERSE THE CUSTOM ii Remember when women used ; hide their rouge? Nowadays l“e' i rouge their hide.—High Po>nt 1. terprise ■
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